The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Dennis Cooper - Cuba: Frijoles Negros

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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Dennis Cooper - Cuba: Frijoles NegrosThis "crucial" (The Advocate) and "compelling" (BuzzFeed) history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of